LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Technical problems hit a governorship election in Nigeria’s southeastern state of Anambra on Saturday during a vote seen as a test of the electoral system less than 18 months before presidential polls. More than 30,000 police were dispatched to secure Anambra after a string of attacks in the southeast blamed on separatists…
LAGOS MAY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Government has eased the lockdown order pronounced on the state, since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic to combat the spread of the disease from Monday to Friday. This was contained in the address of the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday, while updating the efforts of his administration…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigeria Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has declared Sunday, May 24, 2020, as the first day of Shawwal 1441 after Hijrah, and as such, the Eid-el-Fitr. The Sultan revealed this in a statement signed by the chairman advisory committee on religious…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-DStv and GOtv subscribers will have front row seats this Sunday when Nigeria’s Super Eagles take on five-time world champions Brazil in an international friendly. The kick-off time for the encounter is 01:00 pm (West African Time) on Sunday, October 13 on channel 227 for DStv subscribers and channel 37 for GOtv…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The pontiff arrived late for his weekly address in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday explaining that he had been stuck in an elevator in the Vatican for 25 minutes and had to be freed by firefighters. “I have to beg your pardon,” the smiling pontiff said as he started the address…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Sunday lift ban on campaign for 2019 presidential and National Assembly elections slated for Feb. 16, 2019 A statement by Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC Director Of Voter Education and Publicity, on Saturday in Abuja said that political parties who fielded candidates for both elections…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government has announced that the Third Mainland Bridge, which was temporarily closed for Investigative Maintenance Test, would be reopened by 5pm on Sunday (today). The State Government, in a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Dr. Taiwo Salaam, said the decision to reopen the bridge earlier than…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday depart for the Netherlands to participate in activities to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), at The Hague. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity made this known in a statement…